Manuscript on parchment of Commentary on the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei, with the text of the Doctrinale (verses 29 to 1567) added in the margins by various hands
Description:
Script: Copied by various similar hands, writing in a very small Gothica Textualis Currens. The Doctrinale text (art. 3) is written in the margins by various later hands, mostly using a bold and rounded Gothica Semitextualis Libraria, with sometimes elongated and decorated ascenders or descenders. and In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alexander, de Villa Dei.
Subject (Topic):
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on parchment of Alexander of Villa Dei, Doctrinale
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in round gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line., One historiated initial, f. 1r, 6-line, pink, red, and green with white filigree on gold ground thinly edged in black, with a half-length portrait of a teacher in red robes and a red cap holding a book, against a blue ground with white filigree. In the lower margin arms of the Pesaro family of Venice (per pale indented or and azure), framed by scrolling acanthus, green, red, blue, and pink. Plain initials and paragraph marks both alternate blue and red. Headings in red., and Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Light brown leather, gold-tooled. Gilt edges. Rebacked. Title on spine: "Alexander de Villa Dei Doctrinale. MS: In Memb". Bound for Henry Drury by C. Lewis in 1820.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alexander, de Villa Dei.
Subject (Topic):
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Latin language, Grammar, Latin poetry, Medieval and modern, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript fragment on parchment, containing verses 719-781 and 1024-1083 of Alexander de Villa Dei's Doctrinale
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single columns of 30 lines each., Script: gothica textualis rotunda., and Decoration: rubricated. Paraph marks in alternating red and blue ink; two-line initials in contrasting red and blue ink.
11 manuscript fragments (10 on parchment, 1 on paper): 1) Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale, with commentary. 2) Grammar. 3) Eberhardus of Bethune, Grecismus. 4) The Venerable Bede, Grammatical text. 5-8) Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale (each fragment produced in a different location). 9) Grammar, in verse. 10) Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, Books 17-18. 11) Grammar
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alexander, de Villa Dei., Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735., and Priscian, active approximately 500-530.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Grammar, and Manuscripts, Medieval
